Wheatland’s October 2020 auction concluded over the weekend and, unsurprisingly, a pair of autographed Babe Ruth 1933 Goudey cards once again led the way.
Part of the famous “Uncle Jimmy Collection,” the two Ruth cards sold for a combined $725,700.
The biggest prize of the two was an immaculate signed card of Ruth’s iconic No. 181 card from the set. The card received a technical grade of a PSA 4 and the autograph grade was a PSA 8. That card earned $436,600 and was easily the highest-priced item in the auction.
Wheatland’s offering also included two Lou Gehrig 1933 Goudey cards. While one had been enhanced and traced over, resulting in a lesser sale of $21,830, a PSA 2.5 with an autograph grade of PSA 8 was the highest of only three PSA examples and sold for $194,700.
Other notable cards from the sale, included a Jimmie Foxx PSA 5 with a PSA 8 autograph grade, which sold for $29,500. Signed Goudey cards of Hall of Famers Dizzy Dean and Tony Lazzeri also topped $10,000.
So far, there have been a total of nine Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig signed 1933 Goudey cards from the “Uncle Jimmy Collection” sold, netting his heirs a total of $2,057,330 across Wheatland’s July, August, and October auctions.
The collection featured thousands of items, including high-grade unsigned cards from a collection that spanned seven decades but was largely unknown to the hobby until family members began working with Wheatland to sell what their uncle had left behind.
You can see the full results of the auction here.
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